Category Internet Librarian

Sarah Houghton Jan & Aaron Schmidt the mword.blogspot.com presentation before this one aaron recommends what is outreach? – connecting users with librarians number one thing voters care about when voting for funding is libraries transforming lives what is online outreach – when were serving ppl online were serving everybody there are not blocks online, similar […]

experiences are a unique tangible offering experience design – simply stated approach to creating successful experiences for ppl in any medium, american girl example in chicago, 3 different paths structure community and customer structure improve websites easy of use, when customers can focus on own goals rather than how to navigate your site website design […]

From Avatars to Advocacy Michael Porter & Helene Blowers OCLC reports – full of stats What is our brand? more than a logo books your community – this should be your focus all libs are different old paradigm – control the look & feel of the brand, broadcast this to an audience from mass marketing […]

I’m leaving bright and early tomorrow for the Internet Librarian Conference in Monterey. I’m really looking forward to it! The sessions are already full of great information to bring back with me. Plus I get to talk with so many amazing people from Libraryland, I’m always so revved up when I get back from […]

Wow I still don’t have all of my notes typed but, but I wanted to get moving so I’ll do those later. The great thing about this conference (other than the amazing people and Monterey) is all ideas I get to bring back. I have so many things I want to implement where to start, […]

Meredith Farkas led off this two part session with great information about her Five Weeks to a Social Library program. This was the first, free, grass roots, completely online program designed to teach Librarians about social software. It was almost completely done with open source, free software tools such as Drupal, Mediawiki and BlipTV. Her […]

Chad Boeninger presented about Adapting Library Services to the Needs of Gamers the first half of this session. I found this really interesting, even though I am a gamer I’d never really thought about the differences between gamers and non-gamers. For example: game encourage decision making, interaction, and imerision. Gamers learn by doing, if they […]